Lars Calmfors is Professor Emeritus of International Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, and Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm. He chaired the Economic Council of Sweden, advising the Ministry of Finance, 1993–2001, the Swedish Government Commission on the EMU (the Calmfors Commission) 1995–96, the European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo 2006–08, the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council 2007–11, and the Swedish Labour Policy Council 2015–18. He was a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association 1991–96, a Member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1996–98 and 2003–07, a Member of the Academy's Board 2001– 07, and a Member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council 2007–12. Calmfors is currently a Member of the Minister for Finance’s Economic Council, the Minister for Labour’s Labour Market Council and the Public Employment Service’s Scientific Council in Sweden. He is heavily involved in both the Swedish and the European economic policy debate. His main research is on wage bargaining and labour market institutions, the determination of employment and working time, labour market integration of immigrants, monetary union, macroeconomic policy and fiscal policy institutions.
